Europeans over 65 will outnumber those under 15 next year

And those anxious and xenophobic motherfuckers gonna live for sooo much longer than their parents. They easily gonna leech from my salary for the next two decades while I will certainly not get a dime from the generations after me. That generation lived of the wealth of the generations before them AND after them.

The old folks had a good time. Younger generation can't afford sht.

And everyone is afraid of immigration. It's bizarre.

If only society was designed around looking after people instead of infinite competition, maybe this wouldn't be so much of a problem

2023 is the hottest year ever in record. Everything suggests that it won't hold that record for long. Why would I bring children to this world to suffer the hell that 2050 will be?

And it's this exact problem that will get solved with the immigration from climate change. Europe is going to get more African migrants fleeing climate change.

And that's why conservatives get elected. And since more and more young vote for right-wing parties we're in for a real shitshow.

Well, realistically this is a situation we can fuck our way out of

It's not passing such a milestone that's an issue, so much as how fast we pass it - i.e. a population decline is sustainable if gradual. My concern is that our models of economics and governance derive from previous centuries when population was rapidly growing, which helped provide social mobility and influence for younger generations. So we need to adjust economics and governance to compensate, to avoid stagnation and gerontocracy.

Geez, feels like just this year that over 64 year olds outnumbered under 14 year olds.

We're so utterly fucked...

Covid 2 electric boogaloo?

Just a reminder that unsustainable world population growth is bad. Fewer people is good for everyone and our planet.

And this is why the retirement ages have to be raised in many countries.

People live longer and fewer young to take care of the old (and the economy in general)

Europe has proven we can't fix this by importing millions of unskilled people with radically different values. The social unrest is proving catastrophic. Rightwing parties are gaining traction in almost every European country. The EU is on track to accept more than a million applications this year alone, and most of them have large families which will be granted reunification. Data shows most of them will never work a day in their lives. Our social systems will collapse within a decade at this rate. We'll be lucky if the EU itself survives this.

Instead, we really need to alleviate the issues resulting in young people not having kids. The usual argument is, "it's too expensive." While true, data shows that income isn't a barrier to fertility. In fact, higher income results in lower fertility, with some exceptions at the very top end of the income spectrum.